Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of his Department's staff have had days off sick because of mental illness or stress in each of the last three years; and how many days off that amounted to in each of those years.
The number of working days absent, the number of people absent and the proportion of people absent with mental illness can be found in the following table:
| Year | ||
Category | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Total number of days absent in year | 935 | 424 | 588.5 |
Number of people absent with mental illness | 36 | 34 | 31 |
Proportion of paid HMT staff | 3% | 3% | 2% |
Note: HM Treasury does not breakdown mental disorders to particular types, all mental illness, including stress, is rolled into this one category